Top 100 Greeley Quotes
#1. Greeley knew no language but his, but of that, he possessed a most extraordinary mastery. An employee
Harold Holzer
#2. We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley
Harold Holzer
#3. I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley
Harold Holzer
#4. Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton
Harold Holzer
#5. One writer may speak of something more lasting than Horace Greeley when he writes of that editor that his secular philanthropy drifted into autocratic ambition.
Harold Holzer
#6. Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech.
Harold Holzer
#7. Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: "In print, every one of his words seems to weigh about a ton.
Harold Holzer
#8. Because you don't walk away from someone when things get tough, you find a way to stick it out and figure out what's gone wrong. - Zac Greeley, The Boyfriend Thief
Shana Norris
#9. just before Todd leaves for Greeley. These stomach pains also graduate to violent fevers to where he would be freezing and sweltering at the same time. Norma, a family friend, is looking after Colton at her home while Sonja is teaching a class at Imperial
Omar Elbaga
#10. The Bible and newspapers, to both Lincoln and Greeley, they represented equally compelling gospel.
Harold Holzer
#11. For a time, Greeley seemed to be following the historic advice he had once given young Josiah Grinnell: "Go West, young man, go West.
Harold Holzer
#12. Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings, only one thing endures and that is character.
Horace Greeley
#14. A cigar has " ... a fire at one end and a fool at the other."
Horace Greeley
#15. The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.
Horace Greeley
#17. There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn't changed since we started doing research on it back in the early 1960s.
Andrew Greeley
#19. Search for the perfect church if you will; when you find it, join it, and realize that on that day it becomes something less than perfect.
Andrew Greeley
#20. Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.
Horace Greeley
#21. No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources.
Horace Greeley
#22. An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.
Andrew Greeley
#23. Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press.
Horace Greeley
#24. I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.
Horace Greeley
#25. One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.
Andrew Greeley
#26. Do not lounge in the cities! There is room & health in the country, away from the crowds of idlers & imbeciles. Go west, before you are fitted for no life but that of the factory.
Horace Greeley
#27. The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it.
Horace Greeley
#28. I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.
Horace Greeley
#29. We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.
Horace Greeley
#30. Angels represent God's personal care for each one of us.
Andrew Greeley
#31. We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking.
Andrew Greeley
#32. The only real Jesus is one who is larger tahn life, who escapes our categories, who eludes our attempts to reduce Him to manageable proportions so that we can claim him for our cause.
Andrew M. Greeley
#33. If you have no family or friends to aid you ... turn your face to the Great West and there build up your home and fortune.
Horace Greeley
#34. I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.
Andrew Greeley
#35. It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.
Andrew Greeley
#36. So you would kill Old Ireland?" Anna Livia said. "You would kill yourself, for without Old Ireland, you wouldn't be.
Andrew M. Greeley
#37. Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.
Horace Greeley
#38. Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.
Horace Greeley
#39. People came into the Church in the Roman Empire because the Church was so good-Catholics were so good to one another, and they were so good to pagans, too. High-pressure evangelization strikes me as an attempt to deprive people of their freedom of choice.
Andrew Greeley
#40. My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.
Andrew Greeley
#41. It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done.
Andrew Greeley
#42. Two studies from the year 2000, however, indicate that Catholics give lower ratings to their clergy's ministerial activities across the board than do Protestants.
Andrew Greeley
#43. He cannot wisely consent to spend the best years of his life in getting ready to live.
Horace Greeley
#44. Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.
Andrew Greeley
#45. Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty bladder.
Horace Greeley
#46. He returned her love. He lusted after her sweet young body. He wanted her the way he wanted to breathe the spring air.
He had never loved anyone before. He had not known even what this feeling for his tiny slave was.
Now in the crisp, clear spring sunlight, he knew.
Andrew M. Greeley
#47. While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal
the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have
nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined,
is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.
Horace Greeley
#48. I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.
Andrew Greeley
#49. Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud.
Andrew Greeley
#50. If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic.
Andrew Greeley
#51. Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.
Horace Greeley
#52. There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.
Horace Greeley
#53. The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes.
Horace Greeley
#54. I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability ... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.
Andrew Greeley
#55. Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
Horace Greeley
#56. Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.
Horace Greeley
#57. Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it.
Andrew Greeley
#58. I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.
Andrew Greeley
#59. Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?
Horace Greeley
#62. It should be no surprise that when rich men take control of the government, they pass laws that are favorable to themselves. The surprise is that those who are not rich vote for such people, even though they should know from bitter experience that the rich will continue to rip off the rest of us.
Andrew Greeley
#63. Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.
Horace Greeley
#64. Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.
Horace Greeley
#65. Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.
Horace Greeley
#66. Angels are wonderful and exciting, and they have the appeal of beings who will take care of us and manifest God's personal concern.
Andrew Greeley
#67. As the criminal, sinful war in Iraq enters its third year, the president goes to Europe to heal the wounds between the United States and its former allies, on his own terms of course.
Andrew Greeley
#68. Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?
Andrew Greeley
#70. In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites.
Andrew Greeley
#71. Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.
Horace Greeley
#72. Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.
Horace Greeley
#73. Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.
Andrew Greeley
#74. If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West
Horace Greeley
#75. There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.
Andrew Greeley
#76. The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
Horace Greeley
#78. Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?
Andrew Greeley
#79. His heart was now beating rapidly. He wanted to embrace her, cover her with kisses, caress her hair, touch her breast, stroke her thighs: he wanted to sing songs for her, dance dances for her, write poems for her.
Andrew M. Greeley
#80. Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars ... we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris.
Andrew Greeley
#81. I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.
Andrew Greeley
#82. Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.
Andrew Greeley
#83. A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.
Horace Greeley
#84. Well now, look at this, they keep winter in a box. That's clever, she congratulated me. Then she shut the fridge door ...
Andrew M. Greeley
#85. Our country right or wrong is an evil motto - what if your country be in the wrong? It will only compound her injury. I wish to serve the republic with an honest and fearless criticism.
Horace Greeley
#86. It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed.
Andrew Greeley
#87. An impish gleam flickered across the lakes of her eyes.
"Do I cause pleasure in the eyes of my master?" She asked sarcastically, twirling the red leine before him.
Andrew M. Greeley
#88. I want to drink you in with my eyes till I am intoxicated forever.
Andrew M. Greeley
#89. There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment.
Andrew Greeley
#91. There is no bigotry like that of 'free thought' run to seed.
Horace Greeley
#92. It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.
Horace Greeley
#94. The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
Horace Greeley
#95. The kernel is the belief that God is love and, in Catholicism, God's love is present in the world. It is in the sacraments, in the Eucharist, in our families, in our friends, in our neighborhood, and forgiveness in the touch of a friendly hand, in a rediscovered love God is there.
Andrew Greeley
#96. Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it.
Andrew Greeley
#97. You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture.
Andrew Greeley
#99. I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me ... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely ... I could have used a bit more solitude.
Andrew Greeley
#100. Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.
Horace Greeley
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